A nursing assistant should always be kind and caring towards their patients.If you are working in a private home health care sitting you are normally fully responsible for providing assistance to patients with activates in their day to day living. You may need to help them bathe, dress, and do the basic tasks that other people find hard to complete. There may be other times when you need to take vital signs or assistant patients with exercises and range of motion exercises. You may oversee patients and the taking of their medication. Your overall duties will vary differently depending on agency for which you are employed as well as the regulations that you are bound by in your state as well as the home health care state of the location that you are working in.

Working in a hospital setting you are normally going to help provide for a patients basic care and comforts. In the hospital you may need to deliver food to a patient or make sure that a patient receives the proper care of cleanliness. For instance you may make sure that a certain patient that has diabetes gets the right diet while staying at the hospital. You also might be asked to take and check vital signs as well as look after and check the intake of food and water for a client. Other jobs that you may help with include patient grooming, movement from one location to another in a wheelchair or bed, reposition a patient ever few hours, help then re-dress or with toiletry needs. Your exact duties will be outlined to you by your employer.

If you are working in a community setting you will normally help your patients with their grooming, feed them and help them eat as well toiletry needs or medication needs of patient (however you will normally not administer drugs, just aid in taking them).

You will normally receive your full training responsibilities from your employer once you start work. There will also be differentiating factors from state to state in regards to your work. It is always imperative that you provide friendly and helpful care to your patients. At all times you must keep your patients need as first priority and get help as a response to their problems.